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Page 33
A special branch which will be well received is that which proposes to
teach the girls how to cook. The curriculum is one that every
housekeeper ought to go through.
Boiling--Practical illustrations of boiling and steaming, and
treatment of vegetables, meats, fish, and cereals, soup making, etc.
Broiling--Lessons and practice in meat, chicken, fish, oysters, etc.
Bread Making--Chemical and mechanical action of materials used.
Manipulations in bread making in its various departments. Yeasts and
their substitutes.
Baking--Heat in its action on different materials in the process of
baking. Practical experiments in baking bread, pastry, puddings,
cakes, meat, fish, etc.
Frying--Chemical and mechanical principles involved and illustrated in
the frying of vegetables, meats, fish, oysters, etc.
Mixing--The art of making combinations, as in soups, salads, puddings,
pies, cakes, sauces, dressings, flavorings, condiments, etc.
In "marketing, economy," etc., the course comprises general teaching
on the following subjects:
"The selection and purchase of household supplies. General
instructions in systematizing and economizing the household
work and expenses. The anatomy of animals used as food, and
how to choose the several parts. Lessons on the qualities of
water and steam; the construction of stoves and ranges; the
properties of different fuels."
Again, there is a dressmaking and millinery department, where the
girls are taught how to cut and make dresses and other garments, and
the economical and tasteful use of materials.
So much for the girls. The courses in the boys' schools are somewhat
similar, turning, however, on the more practical instruction in trades
and industries, in carpentering, wood and iron work, etc.
The Toledo experiment has been tried there but one year, and has given
general satisfaction. The board of school directors has interested the
public in its efforts, and advisory committees of ladies and gentlemen
have been appointed to assist in managing these schools.
It is to be hoped that other and larger cities will imitate Toledo in
the matter. Those philanthropists who are giving money so liberally
for the establishment of institutions of higher learning might do much
good in providing for manual training schools of this kind that will
assure the country good housewives and skilled mechanics in the
future.--_Trustees' T. Jour._
* * * * *
A GIGANTIC LOAD OF LUMBER.
When it was announced in the _Lumberman_ that the barge Wahnapit� had
carried a cargo of 2,181,000 feet of lumber, letters were received
asking if it was not a typographical error. It was thought by many
that no boat could carry such a load. For the purpose of showing the
barge on paper, a photograph was obtained of her when loaded at
Duluth, which is herewith reproduced. The freight rate obtained to
Tonawanda was $3.75 a thousand, which footed up to a total of
$8,178.75 The owners of the boat, however, were not satisfied with
such a record, and proceeded to break it by loading at Duluth
2,409,800 feet of lumber, which also went to Tonawanda, and which is
put down as the biggest cargo of lumber on record. At the latter place
the cargo was unloaded on Saturday afternoon and Monday forenoon--one
working day. It will be readily understood that the money-making
capacity of the barge is of the Jumbo order also.
[Illustration: THE BARGE WAHNAPIT�, LOADED WITH 2,181,000 FEET OF
LUMBER.]
The barge is owned by the Saginaw Lumber and Salt Company and the
Emery Lumber Company, and cost $30,000. She is 275 feet long and 51
feet beam. The lumber on her was piled 22 feet high and she drew 11
feet of water. Had she been 10 inches wider, she could not have passed
through the Soo canal. The boat was built on the Saginaw river a year
ago last winter, and was designed for carrying logs from the Georgian
bay to the Saginaw river and Tawas mills. The Canadian government,
however, increased the export duty on logs, and the barge was put into
the lumber-carrying trade--_N.W. Lumberman._
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